16 High Street, Kirkcudbright is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
16 High Street, Kirkcudbright
- WRENN ID
- broken-mullion-marsh
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 16 High Street, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4JX
- OS grid reference
- NX 681 510
- Coordinates
- 54.83661, -4.05468
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
16 High Street in Kirkcudbright is an early 19th-century terraced house that incorporates earlier elements. The building is two stories high with an attic and features five bays, with an additional two bays to the right. The exterior is harled with painted margins and has rusticated painted quoins, while the gabled rear wing is constructed of rubble and also has painted margins.
On the left side, there is a pedimented doorway on the right, flanked by paired pilasters and narrow sidelights with acid-etched glass that has contrasting margins. The ground floor has two windows, and the first floor has five windows, all with 12-pane glazing. There are also two later piended dormers. The building has end stacks and a slate roof.
To the right, there is a two-story, two-bay section with two rooflights in the attic. This section features a larger central window on the ground floor and two windows on the first floor. The extensive rear wing is also two stories high and includes an attic, constructed of rubble, with an attic window on the west side that has a gabled head.
Local climate
16 High Street, Kirkcudbright sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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